SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 3 – 4 PM Whistler House Museum of Art This informative discussion features Martin Espada, Richard Hoffman, and Ann Killough discussing the role of poetry in our communities and the poet’s capabilities to affect social, political, and cultural change.  

With Karen Kline SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 9:30 – 10:30 AM & 1 – 2 PM Pollard Memorial Library Help find a Poetic Packet! Look for an envelope hidden within the Poetry Festival area and then help reveal our Mystery Poem. DO NOT open your envelope please! After the envelopes have been opened and the Mystery [...]

With guest filmmaker Henry Ferrini SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 2 – 3:30 PM Lowell National Historical Park Visitors Center Theater From Postman to the Postmodern, Charles Olson remains today an original American master. The enigmatic and hulking six-foot eight Harvard historian drifts back to the hard-luck New England fishing port of his boyhood summers. There he [...]

With guest filmmaker Henry Ferrini SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11 (also shows FRIDAY, OCTOBER 10 – see schedule) 12:30 – 1:30 PM Boott Cotton Mills Museum, 115 John Street Entrance Boott Events Center “Lowell Blues” remembers the place Jack Kerouac could not forget. By fusing visual history, language and jazz into a 30-minute film poem, “Lowell Blues” [...]